If recent events can be said to further marginalize violent rejectionists such as Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri, then there is very little room for a virtual unknown such as Awlaki to command any serious attention".
We may ultimately defeat terrorism only when the fundamentalist, violent ideology of terrorism is marginalized in the very societies and cultures in which terrorists can thrive.
And because they're marginalized, they move toward violent extremism.
The most optimistic scenario is that the international presence backed by the threat of force will restore Albanian self-rule in Kosovo, allowing the more violent supporters of independence to be marginalized until a more lasting settlement is reached three years from now.
Whether Muslim or not, all of our conceptions of Islam help make it what it is and, sometimes, are implicated in the violent reactions of Muslims who feel ostracized and marginalized by "the West" they have been told they do not fit in.
Ayatollah Sistani's demand stirred fears among some American officials that an elected constitution-writing body might write a theocratic charter that enshrined Islam as a state religion and marginalized the Sunni minority, potentially aggravating the violent rebellion of remnants loyal to Saddam Hussein.
For the most part, when these folks enter jail, they're marginalized --disproportionately people of color and the poor -- but not violent or dangerous.
No one has to tell that to Khalil Youssef, one of the founders of Teach for Lebanon: "It is no coincidence that the most deprived and marginalized regions in Lebanon — and the world — are prone to adopt rejectionist, politically dogmatized, violent politics," he says.
As the Shah's repression grew increasingly violent, radical voices rose to the forefront of the opposition, and the voices of reason were marginalized.
Moreover, whereas Muslim immigrants in the US overwhelmingly buy into the American Dream, even middle class European Muslim youth often feel socially marginalized and thus more liable to seek universal meaning for frustrated personal aspirations in a violent mass movement.
